• DocumentCode
    1796245
  • Title

    Carrier phase recovery aided by mid-span spectral inversion in an N-WDM system

  • Author

    Morshed, Monir ; Corcoran, B. ; Du, Liang B. ; Foo, Benjamin ; Chen Zhu ; Lowery, Arthur J.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Syst. Eng., Monash Univ., Clayton, VIC, Australia
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    6-10 July 2014
  • Firstpage
    993
  • Lastpage
    995
  • Abstract
    We experimentally demonstrate mid-span spectral inversion (MSSI) of a Nyquist wavelength-division multiplexing (N-WDM) 526-Gb/s 16-QAM superchannel over an 800-km link. MSSI improves the robustness of blind carrier phase recovery in the nonlinearity-limited region.
  • Keywords
    Nyquist criterion; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; recovery; wavelength division multiplexing; 16-QAM superchannel; MSSI; N-WDM system; Nyquist wavelength-division multiplexing; bit rate 526 Gbit/s; blind carrier phase recovery; carrier phase recovery; distance 800 km; midspan spectral inversion; Bit error rate; Couplers; Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber couplers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fibre Technology, 2014 OptoElectronics and Communication Conference and Australian Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Melbourne, VIC
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6888348